Malex Minute 054

The Malex Minute

Malex welcomes everyone who just discovered the Malex Minute. Snufflefungus earns kudos as a mad scientist by inventing something which solves world hunger. And Linus has to go “see a man about a sheep.” Hilarious! But don’t take our word for it, give it a listen yourself and let us know what you think!

Malex's Thoughts

Macs, Mics, Madness, and an MR-8HD!

There have been times when a Malex Minute episode was late – even days late – and there wasn’t any good reason for it. One time, even though the episode had been prepared earlier in the week, I simply forgot to release it until Saturday afternoon.

How embarrassing! That is, it would have been embarrassing, but hardly anybody was listening, and waiting wasn’t a big problem. In short, it was an amateur mistake in an amateur production.

But now we’re supposed to be all big and professional for the shiny new website. MalexMinute.com needs to be behaving at its best for the curious new listeners!

And there are new listeners. In fact, we’ve been advertising for new listeners to come all week. And by the time you read this, our big new advertising campaign will have already started.

So, you see, it was important that Malex Minute 054 be released on time today.

The problem was, as of Thursday, we hadn’t finished much of anything. We still needed to finish producing the episode, we still needed to finish producing the episode’s illustration, and we still needed to finish our nice animated banner ad. Basically, we had a good, solid day’s work ahead of us.

And then the power went out at our home office. And in case you need me to elaborate on that: No power, no computers, no productivity, no Malex Minute 054.

(Why is it that things only go wrong when it will be profoundly embarrassing if they do?)

So, after an hour or so of powerlessness,* we packed up all our stuff (three macs, three mics, three madmen, and one MR-8HD) ** and drove off to the other side of town.

We invaded my dad’s office building – where he keeps a computer lab for his CS students – and set up shop as quickly as we could.

It was really quite insane, because not only did we need to make up for lost time, but we also needed to stay creative and funny in a totally alien environment.

But the results are astounding! Today’s episode is funny, the illustration is beautiful, the banner advertisement is stunning, and everything just worked out really well.

And to give you some idea how much work we actually did in our ‘temporary office…’ We arrived around noon on Thursday, and didn’t leave until 1 AM Friday.

Yeah, wow.

So anyway, I’m done talking now. Please enjoy the episode, send us some feedback, and (if you’re new here) bookmark MalexMinute.com! Things will continue getting better and better, so check back often!

Moving Right Along...

The snuff is quite impressive in those glasses. The gnome waits anxiously for the next installment, but, in case the linus did get a sheep...the fall-out shelter is being dug...the gnome thanks you for not sending any of the demon horde in my direction.